40 Quotes from Famous Online Marketers and Entrepreneurs

How many times have we heard a quote or a saying that someone famous said that stuck in our minds repeatedly throughout the day?

What is it about quotes that get our attention? Is it the words themselves or something more?

Perhaps it’s not that it was said. It was about what the person did before they said it. Let’s face it: hearing a quote from a four-year-old doesn’t mean much. It might be cute, but we can’t learn anything from it.

Perhaps what we are yearning for in quotes is to glean some tidbit of information that will help us some way from the gurus who have gone before.

One quote by Steve Jobs sticks in my mind every day:
“Stay hungry; stay foolish.” — He was speaking to a graduating class at Stanford, the school he attended, only took a couple of classes from, then went off and made his way in the world.

He was speaking to a graduating class at Stanford, the school he attended, only took a couple of classes from, then went off and made his way in the world.

But Steve Jobs had world knowledge and a strong sense of what it takes to make it in the world. He was speaking to future and current entrepreneurs about the inner drive, motivation, and desire, and the passion that must drive us all to succeed when everything else fails. Steve might have said that to keep learning, growing, and moving forward, you have to live in poverty in your inner mind because some days may be in poverty. You have to remember what it’s like to just start out because entrepreneurs start out every day anew. Every opportunity, every situation is unique in its rite and provides an opportunity for growth and discovery.

In this post, we will feature 50 quotes from online marketers and entrepreneurs that make us think, make us smile, or inspire us to always plod forward with our ideas.

1. “I find it best to dive right in and learn the hard way.”– Pete Cashmore, Mashable

2. “It’s much easier to double your business by doubling your conversion rate than by doubling your traffic.”– Jeff Eisenberg

3. “Focus on the core problem your business solves and put out lots of content and enthusiasm..”– Laura Fitton, Oneforty.com

7. I don’t have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.”– Matt Mullenweg, WordPress

8. “The paradox is that the more information you give away, the more people will buy what you have to give.”
-Brian Clark

9. “In today’s information age, of marketing, a company’s website is the key to their business.”
-Marcus Sheridan

10. “Choose something unique.”
– Angelo Sotiro, DeviantART

11. “If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small idea can be big.”– Ben Silbermann, Pinterest

12. “I think I was very naïve early on, but that also meant I didn’t know what couldn’t be done.”– Matt Mickiewicz, 99 Designs

13. “It’s not about how many years of experience you have. It’s about the quality of your years of experience.”– Jacob Cass, Logo of the Day

14. “If you’ve got an idea, start today. There’s no better time than now to get going. That doesn’t mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there’s always small progress that can be made to start the movement.”– Kevin Systrom, Instagram

15. “There’s no committee that says, ‘This is the type of person who can change the world – and you can’t.’ Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you’re going to do it.”– Adora Svitak, Flying Fingers

16. “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions.”– Catherine Cook, MyYearbook

17. “If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there’s nothing lost.”– Michael Dunlop, Income Diary

18. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In the world that changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”– Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook

21. “The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you’ll fail ten times for every success.”– Adam Horwitz, Mobile Monopoly

22. “Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your blood.”– Sean Parker, Napster

23. “I think not focusing on money makes you sane because in the long run, it can probably drive you crazy.”– Kevin Systrom, Instagram

24. “The companies that I admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their service, and they figure out ways of making money that is completely consistent with how people are feeling and what they are doing at the time.”– Ben Silbermann, Pinterest

25. “Great products sell themselves.”– Kevin Systrom, Instagram

26. “To be successful online, you have to be nimble and evolve where the opportunities are. You have to layer revenue streams.”– Angelo Sotiro, DeviantART

27. “There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.”– David Karp, Tumblr

28. “Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.”– Joe Penna, Mystery Guitar Man

29. “Anything can be done, as long as you truly believe it.”– Ashley Qualls, WhateverLife

30. “We led with our conviction rather than rational because rational said it was impossible.”– Daniel Ek, Spotify

31. “Find something you love and do it better than everyone else.”– Gurbaksh Chahal, RadiumOne

32. “My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.”– Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook

33. “If you make the Internet, live on the internet.”– Matthew Mullenweg, WordPress

34. “A poor logo doesn’t mean a business will fail, and a good logo doesn’t mean it will succeed – it just helps. Ultimately a good logo is something that people recognize instantly and relate to.”– Matt Mickiewicz, 99 Designs

35. “SEO is a race, not a sprint.”– Neil Patel, Quick Sprout

36. “Don’t take too much advice. It’s just that most people who have a lot of advice to give—there are a few people who are exceptions, and they have a lot of data in front of them—most people generalize whatever they did and say that’s the strategy that made it work.”– Ben Silbermann, Pinterest

37. “Over-deliver every time.”– Alex Maroko, Game Speed Insider

38. “Building and hanging on to an audience is the biggest role of social media.”– Matthew Inman, The Oatmeal

39. “I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful.”– Kevin Systrom, Instagram

40. “Social media grew up.”– Kevin Rose, Digg

Bonus Quote:

“We are competing against ourselves; we have no control over how other people perform.”– Pete Cashmore, Mashable

These quotes show the power of words and how influence can greatly be encapsulated with a quote. Infographics are a great way to show quotes, timelines, or any other information that you wish to display to your followers, customers, or visitors.